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Bill: Progressive Reform Bill - Drug Prices
Details
Submitted by[?]: Progressive Party
Status[?]: passed
Votes: This is an ordinary bill. It requires more yes votes than no votes. This bill will not pass any sooner than the deadline.
Voting deadline: December 2172
Description[?]:
We propose that drug prices be deregulated and to allow the free market to determine where drug prices should lie. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The research and development of pharmaceutical drugs.
Old value:: The government subsidizes research and development of prescription drugs and regulates their prices.
Current: The government subsidizes research and development of prescription drugs and regulates their prices.
Proposed: The government subsidizes research and development of prescription drugs but does not regulate their prices.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
Date | 21:52:05, January 13, 2006 CET | From | Conservative Liberal Party | To | Debating the Progressive Reform Bill - Drug Prices |
Message | And allow the free market to decide who lives and who dies? Remember the government has a duty to its poor citizens, not an obligation to help its rich citizens get richer at the expense of the poor |
Date | 23:40:58, January 13, 2006 CET | From | JLP Liberation Militia | To | Debating the Progressive Reform Bill - Drug Prices |
Message | JLP must oppose. Our new party leader, John Lennon, and his assistant, Vladimir Lenin, in a stunning change of JLP policy, recommend full government control of pharmaceuticals. |
Date | 00:03:33, January 14, 2006 CET | From | Likaton Fascist Front | To | Debating the Progressive Reform Bill - Drug Prices |
Message | Oppose, this makes drugs more affordable. Counterlegislation will be forthcoming. |
Date | 04:27:49, January 14, 2006 CET | From | Commonwealth Workers Army | To | Debating the Progressive Reform Bill - Drug Prices |
Message | The AAS believes this is the wrong way to go. Medical companies already profit from the illness of our citizens. We find it immoral to let them reap whirlwind profits from the suffering of others. We do, however, find it ironic to see the Conservative Party acting upset about the possibility we might "allow the free market to decide who lives and who dies"... when the CP has recently argued so eloquently that the government can decide the same question, regarding euthenasia. |
Date | 05:25:47, January 14, 2006 CET | From | JLP Liberation Militia | To | Debating the Progressive Reform Bill - Drug Prices |
Message | The JLP must oppose. Only the government can decide what is right and safe and fair for the people of our great nation. All possible free market cheating must be brought to a swift and certain halt. We will not support. |
Date | 11:43:23, January 14, 2006 CET | From | Conservative Liberal Party | To | Debating the Progressive Reform Bill - Drug Prices |
Message | AAS, surely you understand the difference between the free market and the government, if not we are worried for the sanity of Arkham Konstantinos. If you read our point, we are arguing against this bill, because it may lead to more deaths, how does that seem inconsistant with our anti-euthenasia view? We do not see how arguing to save life in both questions in somehow bad, as the AAS are suggesting. |
Date | 18:36:21, January 16, 2006 CET | From | AM Radical Libertarian Party | To | Debating the Progressive Reform Bill - Drug Prices |
Message | RLP supports this as a good first step. |
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Voting
Vote | Seats | ||||||
yes |
Total Seats: 327 | ||||||
no |
Total Seats: 173 | ||||||
abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
Random fact: "Treaty-locking", or ratifiying treaties that completely or nearly completely forbid any proposals to change laws, is not allowed. Amongst other possible sanctions, Moderation reserves the discretion to delete treaties and/or subject parties to a seat reset if this is necessary in order to reverse a treaty-lock situation. |
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